From: famas@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Jason)
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 08:14:16 GMT



Goodbye cont_e the Demigod...

You and the guardian Angel of Erevan Ilesere
went to your reward with 2028327 points,
       2 amulets of life saving (worth 300 zorkmids),
and 0 pieces of gold, after 59613 moves.
You were level 19 with a maximum of 163 hit points when you ascended.

I tried out your contest elf and was able to ascend on the first try.
This was a fairly straight forward ascension, there were very few
close calls and a few lucky breaks.  I'm not sure how much easier the
pre-generation made the game, it seemed to have the largest effects in
levels with numerous monsters, the big room for instance, or zoos.  I
wasn't really going for points, as I was playing relatively
cautiously.

I found a pair of +1 gauntlets of dexterity and a magic whistle early
in the dungeon, I kept these for the rest of the game, eventually
enchanting the gauntlets to +5.  Had few close calls early on, had to
hide from a jaguar for a while in a shop, and had to discharge two
wands to kill a Gnome who had polymorphed himself into an iron golem
in the mines.  My first dog (nero) was killed by a dwarf with a pick,
but I got a new dog who polyed into a Black Dragon in the mines (I
followed him into the polymorph trap, turning into a large mimic and
breaking out of my dwarvish mithril and elven cloak...).  After my
dragon had taken care of all the shop keepers and the priest, I left
the mines to head for my quest.

Unfortunately, I lost my dragon to a level teleport trap, but I did
find a ring of poly control, and turned myself into a vampire lord in
a poly trap before I took on the Goblin King to get the Palantir and
Bell.  The Goblin King's throne also yielded a wish for +2 GDSM.

My god gave me Orcrist (not surprizingly), but also Grimtooth and
TrollsBane, before I finally was crowned and received StormBringer.
Alters and Temples were quite common in this dungeon, there were
actually few other distinquishing features, although there was a nice
bee hive along the way.

Dug down at Medusa's level (didn't have levitation yet), then climbed
up to kill her and find Perseus' silver shield.  Used a knock spell to
open the castle door, took out the inhabitants, then found a ring of
levitation, a black dragon to provide disentegration resistance, and a
new blue dragon for a pet thanks to invoking the Palantir.  Of course,
I also found the WoW which yielded charging scrolls, Speed boots, a
BoH, a magic marker, a genocide scroll (no more L's), and an AoLS.
Once my AC was -38 and Stormbringer was +6, I headed down to Hell.  I
never found a wand of poly in this game, although I really had no need
to do any polypiling.  A helm of brilliance might have been nice, I
suppose. 

There were few problems in Hell, I payed off a couple demon lords with
pocket change, Jubilex summoned Yeenogu, and Orcus didn't have a Wand
of Death...  My Blue Dragon stepped onto a poly trap and turned into a
Mountain Centaur with 5 HP, unfortunately Stormbringer cut him down
shortly after. 

I invoked the Palantir to tame another Black Dragon (maybe it was even
my second pet), then found the vibrating square, took out Vlad, and
was about to tackle the wizard when I realized I had forgotten my
candles.  A quick level teleport to level 2, then to Mine Town, and
back to the Valley of the Dead was in order.  I dug my way back dowm,
took out the Wizard with little trouble, then headed down to the
Sanctum and grabbed the Amulet.

Teleport and Teleport Control made the trip up fairly easy, I killed
the Wizard 8 times total.  He never stoled an artifact or used Double
Trouble on me.  Sadly, I left my dragon eating as I climbed to the
Elemental planes.

I charged up my Palantir, and used it to find the portal in each
plane, I tamed a Red Dragon in the plane of fire, but left him as I
dived for the portal in the plane of water.  The Astral plane was
little trouble, I killed Pestilence a couple times, picked up
Demonbane, found my alter on the first try, and ascended with my
gaurdian angel (for a rather low score).


Heres some stats:

Cont_e the Hir           St:18/77 Dx:23 Co:18 In:18 Wi:18 Ch:13
Chaotic
Astral Plane $:0  HP:163(163) Pw:136(136) AC:-38 Xp:19/2638780 T:59613
Satiated

 Amulets
 d - a blessed amulet of life saving
 Z - a blessed amulet of life saving (being worn)
 Weapons
 t - the rustproof +6 Stormbringer (weapon in hand)
 u - the blessed very rusty +1 Orcrist
 Y - the blessed rustproof +2 Demonbane
 Armor
 m - a blessed greased +5 pair of gauntlets of dexterity (being worn)
 n - a blessed +4 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)
 E - a blessed fireproof +5 pair of speed boots (being worn)
 I - an uncursed +5 gray dragon scale mail (being worn)
 N - an uncursed +0 dwarvish iron helm (being worn)
 S - an uncursed fireproof +0 cloak of protection (being worn)
 U - a blessed +4 shield of reflection (being worn)

Jason...